The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without. We vertebrates are living dangerously... like so many peeled trees.


Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Chapter 6, II (p. 91), Harper's Magazine Press. 1974

A. E. Douglass Quotes

The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without. We vertebrates are living dangerously... like so many peeled trees.

The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without. We vertebrates are living dangerously... like so many peeled trees.

The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without. We vertebrates are living dangerously... like so many peeled trees.

The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without. We vertebrates are living dangerously... like so many peeled trees.